Aisha Muharrar

When Julia’s first-love-turned-best-friend Gabe, a musician with a cultish following, dies unexpectedly at age twenty-nine, Julia launches herself into an intercontinental quest to recover the possessions he left with friends and acquaintances across the world. Along the way she encounters Elizabeth, Gabe’s effortlessly perfect and endlessly cool ex-girlfriend. Now Julia can’t stop talking to, thinking about, and googling Elizabeth. As the two women struggle to reconcile their respective claims on Gabe’s memory, can they find their way from rivalry to friendship?

A novel

Loved One

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“You may not feel it yet, but at some point, it will hit you. And then you’ll be back to normal, talking to someone, just like we are now, and it will hit you all over again. Grief comes in waves.”

“And when you have that first love,” Roberta continued, “it is exquisite. Just because others have been in love before, it doesn’t make it any less intense or important. If it did, we’d never want to hear another pop song again.”

There was no harm to déjà vu, destiny, the Universe working for you when things were going well. 

I wasn’t worried about being single forever. I was worried about feeling this lonely forever.

“It’s not always bad to close yourself off to others. As long as you don’t do it with yourself."

I know that grief takes practice. And I’m patient with myself. Even though death happens all the time, no one could ever be a natural at this.

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